Let’s take care of mothers and infants first, and then let’s see what’s left over for everybody over 50. I’m over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it’s spent on me.
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And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.
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| Birth: | 1954 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist, Screenwriter |
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Richard Patrick Dooling is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel White Man's Grave, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction, and for co-producing and co-writing the 2004 ABC miniseries Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.
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